Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-06-24

Female Seminary Faculty is spending the
vacation with her daughter, Mrs. DR..
Da1row, at Omaha, Nebraska.
Miss Josephine M. Brown. Principal of
the White Primary in the Public Schools,
is visiting friends in Richmond.
Miss Anne M. Fauntleroy. who has been
teaching Art in the Episcopal Institute at
Winchester, returned last week to spend
her vacation at home. The "Times" of
that city noticing the exhibition of her
scholars work says: s'The fidelity and
excellence of the work done by the class in
art under Miss Fauntleroy shows how in
diligently they have been instructed
Miss Lucy Kinney, who has been teach.
ing in Mrs. Gen. Williams Female Insti-
tute at Woodstock, returned home last
week.
Miss Lizzie McCue, who has been teach
ing in the South the past winter, is now
at home fer the vacation.
Mr.. Charles E. Young, Principal of the
Clarksburg wv. Va.) Female Institute,
and one of the most experienced conduc-
tors of Female Colleges in the South, has
been elected Principal of the Lewisburg
Female Institute. Mr.. Young is Staun-
ton man, son of the late David S. Young,
and was once Principal of the StaunJop
Academy. He takes the place of Rev.
{ DR.. Lacey who has accepted call to
Union, Monroe county, W. Va.
Prof. G. Z. Perry. Principal Of the High
| School here, who was elected last year to
the position of Principal of one of the
Richmond Public Schools. will leave here
about September. At the closing eXer.
| cises Tuesday night DR.. Nelson, in behalf
of Prof. Perry's associates in the schools
presented him with silver pitcher and
goblet Prof. P. IS acceptance of the Rich
mond position is heavy loss to Staunton
and the School Board officially SO stated
by resolutions adopted.
The DISCLAIMERS prize for contestants
from the Public High School was awarded
on Thursday night to Willie G. Morton, a
son of Capt. T. G. Morton, by the COM
mittee-Judge John W. Stout. Rev. DIR.
Gardner, and Commonwealth Attorney
A. G. Braxton. The piece detained was
from the late Senator B. q. Hills. 1.-The
South once more in the Union" Young
Morton was also graduate of the High
School at this session, and Prof. Perry in
presenting his diploma spoke of him as the
youngest graduate who had taken a iiplo.
ma there; SO young that he could not help
speaking of him as his 'baby graduate. -
At the commencement of Shenandoah
Valley Academy at Winchester, this week,
the medal for excellence in Mathematics
was awarded to John Martin Perry, OF
Stanton, who also received his diploma
as full graduate. He was selected to de
liver the valedictory, Of which the Time.
says that 1t was "a most graceful and ap
propriate farewell to his instructors an6
comrades and to friends in the commu-
nifty"
At the commencement at the Episcopal
, Female Institute at Winchester. the media
for performance on the violin was award
ed to little Miss May Hamaker, of Staun.
ton.
Mrs. Josie Myers. a sister of Mrs. Sarah
F. Hunter. of this city, who. has been in
structor in music in the Tazewell, Va,
Female Seminary, has returned home fol
vacation. The Mountain Indexo refer.
ing to her, and her assistant, Miss Fair.
fax, says:
These ladies have made hosts of friends
during their stay among US. We all re-
greet their absence We have not heard,
! but suppose they will return to their places
at the beginning of the next session. 1t
would be risky to entrust the work SO
! nobly begun, to other hands than those
who have safely guided this beautiful ship
on its first voyage, and landed her safely
III that grand old port, success.
Miss Annie Mills of the city Public
Schools, and Miss Maria Mills of the West
End School, left on Saturday for Wash :
ington city On visit to their brother, Mr..
Ellis Mills. Private Secretary to Secretary
Bayard.
Mr.. Samuel HAYES who has been stu
dent at Hampden Sidney College, the past
session, returned home this week.
The Board Of Trustees of Washington
q Lee University have created a new
CHARIOT Geology aud Biology, and cleo
ted Prof. Harry D. Campbell, son of the
late John l.. Campbell, to fill it.
Next Tuesday. Hon. John Randolph
Tucker lectures before the law class OF
Yale College on the ''History of the Con-
federate Convention of 1857; its work, and
the Federal Constitution.